Re: Guidelines for creating subpackages?

From: Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Guidelines for creating subpackages?

Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:47:12 -0600

Christopher Stone wrote:
> All I am saying is that if we want Fedora to be used as a base
> distribution for other distributions, we need to start focusing a lot
> more as a community on making sub-packages for optional requirements.
I'm curious, can you describe precisely the reasoning from
1. more subpkgs for optional components
...
X. improves fedora as a base
X+1. profit!
?
It's not entirely clear to me that making subpkgs is really a (or the!)
major requirement for X.
-- Rex